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Davis, Harris, Fox attached to star in The Cellar
London and Los Angeles-based Cool Hand International has optioned the psychological horror script The Cellar from writer-director John Gary and has attached Lucy Davis, Jared Harris and Emilia Fox to star.Brian Cox is also confirmed for a cameo role in the tale of a group of wedding guests who get ...
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CineMedia, TeleMuenchen pact for digital film
Germany's CineMedia and TeleMuenchen have entered into a strategic alliance to develop digital cinema. TeleMuenchen will take a 7% stake in CineMedia as part of the deal.CineMedia recently launched a division to research digital film-making, post-production and film conservation. TeleMuenchen, which is involved in licensing, production and distribution, is the ...
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Alcon acquires film rights to graphic novel Cryptozoo Crew
Warner Bros-based Alcon Entertainment has acquired rights to Jerry Carr and Allan Gross' graphic novel Cryptozoo Crew and the script adaptation from Joe Gazzam.Cryptozoo centres on a member of a secret organisation charged with protecting the identity of rare animals classified as cryptids who teams up with a beautiful doctor ...
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Disgrace adaptation takes Australian Writers Guild Award
Anna-Maria Monticelli has won an Australian Writers Guild Award for the script of her feature film adaptation of JM Coetzee's novel Disgrace, which will have its world premiere next month in a special presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival.In the original feature category, The Black Balloon earned its two ...
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Widely tipped Parque Via from Mexico wins Locarno Golden Leopard
Mexican director Enrique Rivero's feature debut Parque Via won the Golden Leopard at this year's Locarno International Film Festival which closed with the world premiere of Solveig Anspach's Back Soon.Based on the life of Nolberto Coria who plays himself (as Beto) in the story about the gap between rich and ...
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Noel Clarke teams with Lionsgate UK for sci-fi project 83
Adulthood writer/director/star Noel Clarke is working with Lionsgate UK to develop his next project, 83.Lionsgate UK announced earlier this year that it planned to co-produce and co-finance two to three British features per year; there are three other previously announced films in development but 83 could be the first to ...
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The Dark Knight reconquers international with $42.4m weekend
The Dark Knight wrestled the overseas crown from The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor as it soared past $300m thanks to an estimated $42.4m weekend haul that raised the tally to $328.6m.Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) chiefs said the Batman epicwas active on more than 7,700 screens in 60 ...
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Tropic Thunder wins at domestic box office with $26m weekend
DreamWorks-Paramount's Tropic Thunder 'got some' at the weekend, to paraphrase the marketing slogan deployed on posters across the US, as the action comedy outgunned The Dark Knight to open top on an estimated $26m over three days.The story of a catastrophic film shoot in the South-East Asian jungle launched on ...
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Former THINKFilm executive launches Variance Films
Former THINKFilm director of distribution and marketing Dylan Marchetti has launched Variance Films and will kick off with the domestic releases of Walking On Dead Fish and Smother.Variance will target small films that typically struggle to get into theatres in an increasingly overcrowded market place and Marchetti plans to be ...
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Fox Japan ramps up local production with Gunjo
20th Century Fox Japan has unveiled details of its latest foray into local feature film production with drama Gunjo (Ultramarine), starring Masami Nagasawa.Based on a popular serialised novel by Ayako Miyagi, the story depicts the spiritual recovery of a woman who returns to her father's home in Okinawa after her ...
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Taiwan's NDF to back Hou Hsiao-hsien's Assassin
Hou Hsiao-hsien's long-awaited martial arts fantasy The Assassin has become the first film to secure direct investment from Taiwan's National Development Fund. The script is based on a fantastical Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.) short story about female assassin Nie Yinniang who can conjure horses out of folded paper and transform ...
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Zebra unwraps Big Brother for big screen
Spanish producer Antonio Saura has unveiled the first feature film out of his start-up outfit Zebra Producciones, an innovative reality show spin-off shot entirely in secrecy and starring the cast of Gran Hermano, the Spanish version of hit TV programme Big Brother.According to the film's director, Antonio Hernandez, the project ...
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Celluloid Dreams picks up Birdwatchers, Plastic City
Celluloid Dreams has added two Venice competition titles to its autumn slate - Yu Lik-wai's Plastic City and Marco Bechis' Birdwatchers - both of which are set in Brazil and are co-productions with Brazil's Gullane Filmes. Produced by Italy's Classic Film, Karta Film and Rai Cinema with Fabiano and Caio ...
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Northern Soul feature Souled Out starts five-week shoot
Northern Soul-era coming-of-age story Souled Out starts shooting today for five weeks.The cast features Martin Compston, Alfie Allen, Craig Parkinson, Nichola Burley, Felicity Jones, Brian McCardie, Jo Hartley, Pat Shortt and Huey Morgan.Shimmy Marcus is directing for Ipso Facto Films and Dreamfinder. The project is shooting on location in Stoke-on-Trent, ...
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Metrodome branches into IMAX with Steep documentary
Metrodome Distribution is releasing its first title on IMAX screens: sports documentary Steep will run at the BFI IMAX from Sept 26.Steep is a feature documentary about big-mountain skiing, starring some of the sport's biggest names including Seph Morrison, Glen Plake and the late Doug Combes.Metrodome CEO Peter Urie said: ...
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Eden Lake
Dir: James Watkins. UK . 2008. 90mins.More Funny Games than Donkey Punch, Eden Lake is a gruelling, grimly effective British chiller. The directorial debut of My Little Eye screenwriter James Watkins achieves a commendable balance of dramatic credibility and psychological intensity that makes his nightmare scenario all the more disturbing. ...
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Mirrors (2007)
Dir: Alexandre Aja. US. 2008. 111mins.Mirrors tries to blend conventional horror with dark, allegorical thriller in this film about a washed-up policeman targeted by evil mirrors but pulls off neither very effectively. French film-maker Alexandre Aja, quickly becoming the go-to director for down-and-dirty horror remakes, hits all the keys hard ...
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New Wave takes UK rights to Lawlor & Molloy's Helen
New UK distribution outfit New Wave Films has acquired Helen, the debut feature from Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor.Screen International criticAllan Hunter called the film 'hypnotic' and said 'Molloy and Lawlor are talents to watch.'The film, which had its world premiere in Edinburgh, is about a student who is hired ...
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Paul Hogan keen to make Charlie & Boots for Instinct
Two of Australia's leading film comics, Paul Hogan from the 1986 worldwide hit Crocodile Dundee fame, and Shane Jacobson from the 2006 local Kenny are the likely leads in Charlie & Boots, which secured a promise of investment today from Screen Australia.Although not signed, producer David Redman said they are ...